RESOLUTION Directors Explain Why You Should See Their Movie
Audiences at the Tribeca Festival may leave the premiere of screenings under the impression that creators Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are very serious people. Grim, even. It is, after all, a film that goes to some very dark places... More »
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Tribeca 2012: First Clip From Thriller REPLICAS Chills

Jeremy Power Regimbal's feature debut Replicas has its world premiere coming up on Saturday, April 21st at the Tribeca Film Festival. Our first taste of what Regimbal has concocted is now online in the form of a 90 second clip.... More »
  

Tribeca 2012: Exclusive Image From JACKPOT Nails It
So here we have Arthur Berning, Mads Ousdal, and Kyrre Hellum in a scene from Jackpot, which has its International Premiere in the Cinemania strand at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.From a highly reliable source I've heard Magnus Martens' dark... More »
  

Poster Premiere For Ron Morales' Tribeca Selected GRACELAND
Back in November Twitch was proud to launch the trailer for Ron Morales' intensely dark drama Graceland and with the film freshly announced at Tribeca we're equally pleased to bring you the first look at the official poster.Family man Marlon... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Tribeca 2012: Spotlight, Cinemania & Special Screenings Announced
I've barely had time to go over the titles in this year's World Narrative, Documentary and Viewpoints sections, and here the folks at Tribeca have the audacity (shocker!) to spring on us 34 more titles for Spotlight, Cinemania and their... More »
  

Trailer For Chris Sullivan's Multi-Discipline Experimental Animated Feature CONSUMING SPIRITS
Freshly announced as part of the Tribeca Viewpoints program, Chris Sullivan's animated feature Consuming Spirits is a passion project fifteen years in the making.Nearly 15 years in the making, Chris Sullivan's Consuming Spirits is a meticulously constructed tour de force... More »
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Trailer For Ben Dickinson's Tribeca Selected FIRST WINTER
With a premise that reads like a sort of metaphysical hipster post-apocalypse film, Benjamin Dickinson's First Winter stands as one of the more intriguing titles in the first wave of Tribeca announcements.In this extraordinary debut feature, a blackout of apocalyptic... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Ben's 2011 In Film: Reflections And A Top 10
One early November afternoon, as I took my seat for a screening of Take Shelter (a film I had been greatly looking forward to since its Sundance premiere), the realization that I had not stepped foot into a movie theater... More »
  

Hey Boston - How About Free Tix to Tribeca Hit THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY
Dennis Farina is a down on his luck hustler on Chicago's mean streets in Joe Maggio's (Milk & Honey) Tribeca 2011 hit The Last Rites of Joe May. Tribeca Film is bringing the movie to the Museum of Fine Arts... More »
  

THE SWELL SEASON Review
[With the film extending its run in Los Angeles and opening tomorrow in New York, we now revisit Peter's review from Tribeca.] Overall, I must say that I was struck by the similarity of The Swell Season to Hobo with... More »
  

BOMBAY BEACH: Alma Har'el Interview
A little history on Bombay Beach first: The desolate and surreal Salton Sea in California stands as a formidable metaphor for the broken American Dream. The largest lake in California, it was created when the Colorado River flooded the windswept... More »
  

Tsui Hark Chats About DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME
[During this summer's NYAFF, Diva Velez sat down with Hong Kong legend Tsui Hark to talk about his latest, the Wuxia spectacle Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame. This is being cross-published at The Diva Review.] The... More »
  

Trailer For Tribeca Winner SHE MONKEYS (APFLICKORNA)
I was greatly impressed by Lisa Aschan's She Monkeys (Apflickorna) at this year's Tribeca. Evidently so was the jury as it won for best narrative feature at the festival. While statements like "the best Swedish debut since Lukas Moodysson" have... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Tsui Hark

[This interview with the Hong Kong maestro goes up under the NYAFF banner, as that is where Diva Velez sat down with Hark earlier this month. And for those wondering why there is no Detective Dee talk, the PR folks... More »
  

THE TRIP Review
[With "The Trip" opening in most major U.S. markets tomorrow, now seems a good time to revisit my review from last April's Tribeca.]I hereby subtitle this review of Michael Winterbottom's The Trip, "The Misadventures of the Dueling Caines" or "A... More »
  

Magnet To Release BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW In US; Mongrel In Canada
Great news out of the Cannes Film Market! Panos Cosmatos' transgressive mind-trip of a sci-fi throwback, Beyond The Black Rainbow has been picked up for U.S. theatrical release by Magnet, and in Canada, where the film was produced, by Mongrel... More »
  

Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Nosh & Clash In The Trailer For THE TRIP
Well this is an easy, and effective way to sell the U.S. theatrical cut of Michael Winterbottom's BBC2 limited series... That is basing much of what you see of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's restaurant tour of Northern England around... More »
  

Tribeca 2011: Team Twitch Wraps Up
This evening sees the 10th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival come to a close. My gallant colleague, Peter Gutierrez and I would like to thank the staff and volunteers, publicists and assistants for making TFF 2011 quite a cool... More »
  

HOFF 2011: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Review
Ethereal and Transgressive (Capitals E & T being very important), Beyond The Black Rainbow and its director, Panos Cosmatos, largely live up to their strange namesakes. It would be far too easy to label Cosmatos' first feature effort as overly... More »
  

Tribeca 2011 Award Winners!
With a few days left in Tribeca's tenth anniversary festival, the winning films in the Documentary and Narrative competitions have been announced and well... Most of these Peter Gutierrez and I did not see, but two big winners I did... More »
  
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